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...ballot in which the voter may indicate his preference. Last week 76,710 Massachusetts Republicans wrote in the name of Alfred Mossman Landon. That was more than ten times as many as scribbled the name of Herbert Hoover, nine times the total for the next three choices-Borah, Vandenberg, Knox...
...William Edgar Borah was seven years out of the University of Kansas law school and thinking of moving to Idaho, or some place where he could practice law with success. Borah had matriculated from Lyons, Kansas, and had returned there to practice. He hoped to be appointed city attorney, but after three months of deliberation, the council turned him down. On what grounds, it is not known...
...Kansas Borah had been something of a racy collegian, a lad of midnight escapades, and whisper it softly in Lyons, of the "flowing bowl...
...later his father took the family out of Kansas to prospect for oil wells, and one of his wells "came in." So in 1904, when son Alfenrolled at the University of Kansas, he didn't have to work his way through college, as had college men Knox, Hoover and Borah. Alf joined Phi Gamma Delta, the "rich boys fraternity" of his day at Kansas, and proceeded to make a reputation for himself of being stingy. He had the first tuxedo in town, yet be campaigned successfully to cut the ice cream course from the house menu. He fought hard...
From this quartette, Herbert Hoover, William R. Borah, Alfred Landon, and Col. Frank Knox, the Republicans this summer may pick a presidential candidate. If they do, the candidate will be one college man who doesn't believe in tampering with the Constitution...